Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The an-hinga or snake-bird, Plotus anhinga. See
darter , 3 , and cut underanhinga . - noun The wood-ibis, Tantalus loculator: more fully called
Colorado water-turkey . Seewood-ibis , and cut underTantalus .
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Examples
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He looked as though his name ought to be Slunk; he was digging coquina clams, and he dug with a pecking motion like a water-turkey mastering
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A water-turkey now and again rises and flies ahead into the long avenue of silence.
Life on the Mississippi Mark Twain 1872
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A water-turkey now and again rises and flies ahead into the long avenue of silence.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. Mark Twain 1872
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A water-turkey now and again rises and flies ahead into the long avenue of silence.
Life on the Mississippi, Part 12. Mark Twain 1872
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A water-turkey now and again rises and flies ahead into the long avenue of silence.
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It was a water-turkey, that had been sitting on a tree, just as we turned a corner.
A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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The water-turkey stuck out his long, snake-like neck, and said:
A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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It was a water-turkey, and he sat placidly on a limb close to the water's edge, and about a boat's length ahead of us.
A Jolly Fellowship Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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"That was a water-turkey, and he isn't hurt a bit.
Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock
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"The turkey you get will be a water-turkey," observed Cardross; "or a fragrant buzzard.
The Firing Line 1899
reesetee commented on the word water-turkey
Nickname for the Anhinga, also called snakebird.
December 7, 2007